2004 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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Elfriede Jelinek | |
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Academy |
First awarded | 1901 |
Website | Official website |
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".[1] She is the tenth female and the first Austrian Nobel laureate followed by Peter Handke in 2019.